Today, after seeing one too many excursions in the code that I'm working on, I decided to start showing some of what I'm having to read through in my current project rather than continue posting them to my original thread Worst coding ever - what to do?.

Today started off with this innocent email to a coworker:

Me: Believe or not, this wasn't my comment.

ParentID = MathUtil.getInteger(0); // Yuck

Coworker: Is that an overly complex...